Mengying(Bonnie) ZHOU: 2009

2009年10月22日星期四

Workshop 3 Architecture in motion

Concept:

The dramatis persona of this story is a new architecture student of UNSW, standing in the front of the faculty, Red Center. She looks around, feels very excited. Ruler, scissors are symbols of pressure, suddenly dropping from the sky. While at this time, the protagonist understands the hardship of studying architecture. Then she carries all of this heavy equipment into the building, waits for an elevator with a group of people. After a long time, the elevator still does not come. Fortunately, fewer and fewer people are waiting for the elevator; finally, these are only 3 people, she and other 2. After another while, the elevator arrives. But it is full of people. Crowd pushes her far away from the elevator. When she realizes, the other group of people come. Suddenly the elevator is full of people again. In the front of her, the door closes. Luckily, the dramatis persona finds there is a hallway next to the elevator, slants toward the other side of this building. Then the dramatis persona goes along this aisle up to Level M.” How an open, quite place it is! I can do my model here.” The dramatis persona feel helpless while there is at least a hint of surprise at end.

Self reflection:

This workshop involves a time-based method of manual architectural representation by creating a 20 seconds imaginative spatial movie occurring in our Red Center. I was fully convinced there is no short way for any study. I spend a whole weekend drawing my movie background. There are a hundred and ten A4 pictures I have done at that stage. At the end I really could not persist in the drawings any more. Then I bought a wooden man from a design shop and took photos of the movement of the wooden man. Finally my 20 seconds movie completed. However my teacher was very angry. It was not satisfied in this workshop as it also contents drawing skill. My heart broke. I was mainly concentrate on the movie and had not touched any other homework at this stage. What an awful experience I have been through. This awful experience tells me if you take short cuts, you will end up with perdition.

2009年9月28日星期一

Workshop 2 Atlas of color

Self reflection:

This workshop involves students entering the color world, introducing to color theory and visual language. In my opinion, I have found this is the most difficult workshop I have done. It has lots of homework. One of my hardest experience was working on a collage for a building‘s plan and section. I cut hundreds of small pieces from magazines, and arranged in a dark to light color tone. It is a huge job to carefully select the right color tone from all kinds of magazines. I soon became a color blind and roughly finished the collage. After this special experience, I realize that doing all this kind of homework is not concern about how to finish as soon as possible. You should enjoy and learn something from it. I hope next time with this type of assignment I will find it more enjoyable.

2009年8月19日星期三

Workshop 1 Fluid thoughts and movements to actions

This is my firsh drawing which I used charcoal and pastal mix together.

The second drawing is also a charcoal drawing with white water colour on the top to make the main object stand more forward.

collage with charcoal

Homework 1

A corner

Charcoal drawing with pastal

After I made the background in a dark tone and the right hand side wall in a middle tone, the desk suddenly stands out. On the top of this page, I chosed to use white charcoal drawing the books and other stuff again without looking. It was totally a massive, lines are expended everywhere. I fixed it at the end.

water colour drawing

water colour drawing by using dots

water colour drawing (Objects)

watercolour drawing (different position)

water colour drawing + charcoal (transparence)

Homework 2

water colour dawing on one house in 3 different views

5 water colour drawings mix with charcoal

a pure charcoal drawing on the right hand

charcoal drawing on the top

water colour drawing underneath

Homework 3

This is my final homework. First I drew a water colour drawing on the horizonal way, then used charcoal, drew a different perspective about the musium on the vertial. Finaly, I used white charcoal on the top of the drawing again.

Self reflection:

This workshop introduces students to drawing the built environment in a heap of different ways. This includes the various aspects of drawing fundamentals. From taking this workshop, I have learned as a modern architect you should always be creative. This is my experience combining water color painting with charcoal, and blind contour which is a new term for me. In this workshop found that the drawing of the built environment can go beyond the familiar watercolor medium. There is nothing wrong to stick on normal, but it is not an immutable concept for architectural study.

2009年6月21日星期日

Final EX3

I designed a quite big space for Obama, occupies the whole bridge on the top. The idea for this shape is come from my H shape drawings.

My meeting place is not just a single place for Obama and Madonna to meet. It is also a place they can both use for their different purpose, such as for public meeting, or for concert. Because I used marble mostly, so the whole structure looks little bit in Roman style.